July 29, 2016

Adoption News Roundup

Happy Friday, friends. We hope you have a lovely weekend planned, one during which you stay cool, relax, enjoy time with your family, and perhaps even have a moment to take for yourself as well.

Here are some stories to get you reading this weekend…we hope you enjoy.

See you Monday!

This adoptive father and book author shares what adoption has taught him. “I have also learned a lot about the difficulty of adoption. We were blessed when we received our two sons, but we didn’t know how hard it would be. We’d never had children before, so we simply adjusted to the new normal. Because the boys had never had solid food, one of them was traumatized by the texture of food, would pack it into his cheeks, and gag. Teaching him to eat was the most stressful thing I’ve ever lived through, as I would sit by his chair and coax, “Chew! Chew!” At one point, I turned to Maria and said, “Wait! I, for the first time, really get the whole ‘milk to meat’ concept of the New Testament.” But then our son vomited all that food up, and my exegetical insight was gone.”

Okay…so how does the adoption process work?

8 things people say about adoption that just aren’t true.

We love this! 17 adoption stories that will warm your heart. “My husband and I adopted both of our boys. We met our older son’s birth mom when she was about 4 months pregnant. It gave us some time to develop our relationship with her, and she ended up deciding that she wanted us at the hospital when she gave birth. Fast forward to the day and we waited in the waiting room while she was giving birth. There was no one else giving birth at that time, so we actually heard his first cry from the waiting room. Her mother immediately came and got us and the birth mom insisted that we be the first to hold him. It was amazing.”

Think there’s no point in adopting a 17 year-old kid? Think again.

Adoption can be a parent’s true love story.

Adoption agencies don’t just need parents…they also need volunteers.